How to install and play Dragon Age Origins Ultimate on Steam in 2024 UPDATED

AFTER SEARCHING FOR 10 HOURS TODAY I FINALLY GOT MY GAME WORKING IN THESE 7 SIMPLE STEPS IT WILL LITERALLY TAKE YOU 5 MINUTES OR LESS (depending on how computer literate you are). PLEASE, TAKE YOUR TIME. DO IT STEP BY STEP. PAUSE IF YOU HAVE TO AND IF YOU NEED HELP LEAVE A COMMENT. I WILL RESPOND ASAP.
Steps:
1.) UNINSTAL DRAGON AGE ORIGINS
2.) DELETE THE DRAGON AGE ORIGINS FOLDER IN DOCUMENTS/BIOWARE
3.)Download: this....4gb patch: ntcore dot com/?page_id=371
and this....Unencrypted DAOrigins.exe: www.nexusmods dot com/dragonage/mods/5989?tab=files
4.)open the .zip file Unencrypted daorigins.exe - AlexFaithman-5989-1-0-0-1675337344 and drag the daorigins.exe file into the bin_ship folder in your Dragon Age Origins Steam directory. Accept the changes.
5.) open the .zip file 4gb_patch and run the .exe file and locate that file you just dropped in the directory from step #4 and click Open.
6.) go back to your Dragon Age Origins Steam Directory folder AGAIN, and goto the redist folder and run the two files:
DAUServiceSetup_Steam.exe
DAOU_UpdateAddinsXML_Steam.exe
7.) YOU SHOULD BE GOOD TO GO! But, if you want to double check to make sure your DLCs are installed just go back to Documents/BioWare/DragonAge/Settings and there SHOULD be a offers file and addins file.
If this helped you fix your game like it did mine, please like the video and leave a comment letting me know what happened. If you have problems ill do my best to help you because we ALLLLL KNOW Steam and EA Support ain't worth a SHIT!!!!! and that's the truth and ya'll know its the truth!!! We don't sugar coat shit around these parts LOL.
#DragonAge #DragonAgeOrigins

[@The_Gent]

God I HOPE this worked for you guys and helped yall fix the problem..REMEMBER BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING UNINSTALL THE GAME AND DELETE THAT DRAGON AGE FOLDER IN THE DOCUMENTS/BIOWARE FOLDER!!! That is the MAIN step!

[@Rocketman39]

It didn't work for me 😢

[@The_Gent]

​@Rocketman 37 then you're doing something wrong. This is for Steam/DA:O Ultimate

[@The_Gent]

​@Rocketman 37 click the description and follow the steps. Everyone says it helped so it's something you're doing

[@thearmandhammer7979]

Were you able to do a complete playthrough? I keep getting fatal crashes later in the story.

[@madockimball7801]

This totally fixed my problem; the game would crash immediately upon crossing the bridge to ostagar and I couldn't play. Thanks a ton man.

[@The_Gent]

gld it worked are you from steam? ive been trying to get this pinned on there

[@madockimball7801]

@@The_Gent I was going through reddit threads looking for solutions and someone linked this video + the 4g mod in response to a thread with a similar problem as mine. lifesaver!

[@madockimball7801]

@@The_Gent Yeah it worked for me from steam. Used this video to help a buddy of mine too.

[@Taha95]

if it gets stuck on the middle of the installation of dlc's just run the game once and try again, it works.

[@shiningdagr]

Thank you for this. I ran into the getting stuck in the middle on the dlcs and this fixed it.

[@niome13665]

Thank you so very much, I was getting so frustrated ❤

[@Yxtxxyxx]

Thank you!

[@Batterydennis]

This was the missing step for me. Thank you!

[@ZeriocTheTank]

Thank you for helping me out! I spent a good chunk of my day off trying to figure out what was going on, and looking online I was having difficulty finding someone experiencing a similar issue. it's so nice to be able to play DAO again. Thank you again my friend.

[@The_Gent]

Yea I went through the same crap before figuring it out that's why I made this video. Ita bullshit that we have to go through this. Just wait until 20 years from now you think this is bad, its only gonna get worse with them forcing digital downloads and stores discontinuing the sale of physical media like dads, Blu ray movies, videogame disc's.

[@Elizabeth-vb6tc]

Thanks for this! Was unable to get the game to properly load, let alone play. Now it's launching and playing like a dream.

[@bradvillarreal8952]

I'm not good when it comes to downloading other files and adding them to games to get them working but I was able to complete this easily and now I can enjoy a childhood game... Thank you so much for the easy instructions!!

[@scarletdreams6689]

Couldnt find any other videos explaining everything in a detailed way. I was going crazy trying to figure it out. Thanks so much!

[@The_Gent]

@scarletdreams6689 I know. There are none that's why I made this 2 years ago and just change the year

[@Weismann.]

To tell the truth, I do not understand English by ear, but I visually understood and was able to solve the problem with the dlc. Thank you)

[@The_Gent]

Awesome!!! so glad this is helping people. because it was a CHORE in and of itself sifting through forums and reddit posts. There isnt a guide for this on KZbin becasue this must be something new that Steam just did that broke the game for everyone

[@Weismann.]

@@The_Gent I just deleted all the data, and downloaded the game again, in general, there were no problems with the gameplay. But the only thing I struggled with was launching it on Steam. The clock did not go there and the cards did not fall out, as if I were playing a separate game, sometimes it wrote that the game was already running. As a result, it was only necessary to launch the utility and clean the PC from debris. This is a useful video, I hope it will help others too)

[@andrea15026]

HUGE THANK YOU! This was the only thing that worked for me after trying so many other things. The only thing that is different for me is that the neither the desktop shortcut or playing from steam will launch the game, it just causes it to crash saying I need a 'CD key'; I just launch the game directly from the file in bin_ship and it works perfectly! And at this point I'll take it lol (Also, NOTE that I was not able to download my DLC as listed in step 6 until I ran the game once, and I just mean go into the title screen and then exit out, then I did step 6 and it worked perfectly and I have all my DLCs; don't know why that happened but thought I'd leave a note in case someone is having the same hang up there.) Huge thanks again!!!!

[@The_Gent]

great news! its funny cause alot of people comment that this doesnt fix their problem so they are probably doing something wrong becauyse 90% of the comments on here said the same thing u said.

[@FLU65]

Wow! Hello, I live in Korea. I'm new to the Dragon Age series, and I was having trouble with the game not running after purchasing it on Steam. I came across this video through the steam community, and I was able to solve this problem with 3 minutes or so. Thank you so much.

[@travelsizedhispasian]

Dude you just saved me from uninstalling the game and trying my luck on a different platform (Origin/GOG) when I got this game for 3 bucks. Games working amazingly, thank you for making this video, you are a godsend. I wish you nothing but the best 'cause man, I was clawing my eyes out for 3 hours lmao, so I appreciate it!

[@bearbectar7173]

Cheers Lad i followed all instructions and it worked out. I can finally start playing the game after having it in my library for several years without touching it. I'll recommend this video to any of my friends who want to get in to dragon age.

[@The_Gent]

It's bullshit that we have to even do this lol

[@brianumeh788]

broski your actually awesome i thought i just threw my money into the abyss when i bought this thanks for the fix

[@The_Gent]

your lucky because ihad this video on private for about 2 months now i just recently have been slowly unprivating my videos becuse i have had 2 strikes on my account AGAIN. glad it worked. theres a mod to make the Kunari guy look like a KKunari and not some random black guy

[@janpech6423]

Worked for me. Thank you, kind stranger on the internet, for the brief but very understandable explanation of everthing you do.

[@frederiktigerdyr1403]

Be aware that if you uninstall the game and remove the dragon age folder, your save games ARE GONE! might wanna mention that. otherwise, good tutorial. totally agree about the necro post stuff, absolutely rediculous.

[@The_Gent]

This is for a fresh install. You're gonna have to start over from scratch. 🤷🏻‍♂️ those saves won't be patched and will be corrupted.

[@frederiktigerdyr1403]

@@The_Gent Indeed. To be honest, it's totally worth losing my saves, since your method solved all of my problems with the game, and now there are no more crashes or texture glitches. Thanks for making the Tutorial, you really helped me out a lot!

[@davidryan0808]

Today you balanced out the tech support and zoomer vibes on the net :) thankfully it worked without a reinstall just deleted those files in the folder. Bought this game on steam because silly me thinking it wud be all working. GReat rant btw and cheers for saving me alot of head banging

[@alanbarrera6282]

Thanks dude it fix my game, I sent 2 day trying find what was wrong with it and the video helped a lot.

[@jacksonmain1743]

My man I haven’t been able to play origins in YEARS because of the crap steam pulled but your video helped me fix all of it! Thank you so much! You a real one!

[@The_Gent]

thanks. i know. ive had ppl comment on here saying it doesnt work when i know it does and your comment is just more proof that it does work they are just retards

[@davidborja8054]

I tried to do your method but sadly did not work, so I updated my system and tried launching the game again and it worked for me. thanks for your help none the less

[@The_Gent]

The steps are in description did you read those?

[@alesanderboricon5485]

Thank you soo much, greetings from Spain!!

[@The_Gent]

Excellent

[@AramisRamirez1]

This solution worked for me save for one extra step. After I did everything in the video, I found I still needed to do the step where I needed to make a fake .xml file called "systeminformation" and placed that in the documents>bioware>dragon age folder. Essentially, you make a notepad file and save it in that folder with that systeminformation name. You need to navigate to the notepad doc and change the .txt extension to .xml and after that, the game loaded up from Steam like normal. Thanks for this video, it really did help!!

[@Ben-oc3li]

For anyone having the issue where the Configure window immediately closes, follow all the steps in the video and only launch the game directly from the "daorigins.exe" file. For some reason, the game fails to gather my system information which was causing all the issues, so you have to just circumvent the configure screen entirely.

[@Ben-oc3li]

Also holy crap this was insanely headache-inducing. Steam shouldn't be selling this game if it's so broken.

[@The_Gent]

@@Ben-oc3li tell me about it it took me all day to figure this shit out. and theres so many other games that are like this too that just straight up wont launch its a SCAM. it should be illegal

[@The_Gent]

@@Ben-oc3li its not Steams fault, its EA and Biowares fault for not updating the game. Steam is just the middle man.

[@kathh6855]

@@The_Gent I am sure steam knows about the problem which makes them just as culpable in this situation. I've been trying for years to figure out how to get dlc to work. I told them. I am sure others told them as well that the dlc doesn't work and users have to find massive work arounds. EA should fix their crap, yes, but steam shouldn't sell it until it's very clear on what to do in order to play the full game people spent money on. I'm hoping this video will help. But I'm still blaming EA and Steam for not doing anything to help customers out.

[@Maximus-ix9zs]

Good and to the point video. liked the video and writing this comment for the algorithm so others with the same problem get recommended this video.

[@The_Gent]

thanks! glad it worked for ya! i dont get how some people said that it didnt work even though 90% of the people on these comments said it did.

[@chenny6626]

You're a legend mate! I can finally get started on my DA playthroughs before the next game comes out! I got 80 hours into a modded playthrough before I stopped playing for a while and had this issue! Any recommended mods that don't change the overall experience much but improve the game? Thanks again!

[@The_Gent]

goto nexus mods and search for this mod for Dragon Age Origins...its called: Dragon Age Origins Unofficial Remaster

[@SNG724]

Thank you so much!!! I almost given up hope on getting this game to work.

[@zagreus3671]

you're a hero dude! Thanks so much for this guide.

[@The_Gent]

glad it helped. your lucky because ive been getting alot of comments saying it didnt help so i think they are just doing something wrong

[@InumnantOmnia]

Thank you! Everything work, except for steam won't count the hours played, but that's secondary.

[@The_Gent]

@dystoplexdystopia6161 yea that's the trade off. No more steam time counter.

[@davidborja8054]

Okay, I did everything, and it works now. The only problem I had before was that I didn't extract the ntcore and unencrypted files, so my game wouldn't even open, so once I extracted the files and did everything again, it works. Thank you

[@The_Gent]

No problem. Yea that's what I did too that's why I wrote out the steps 1 by 1 in the description. Is there anything missing or anything I should fix in them to male it easier to understand? Or are they fine thebway they are?

[@The_Gent]

@davidborja8054 please make sure you thumbs up 👍🏻 the video...this is effing stupid man, whenever you write out the persons name with the @ it doesn't ever tag their name. Neither does the thumbs down thing that don't work either. It's like why even have it on their then if you removed the function then..

[@davidborja8054]

I got you man. Thanks again I been playing DAO for a while now and no more crashes so far. And plus I got all the dlc also so big thanks again

[@FlippinFruitFly]

You saved my weekend and sanity 😂. Thank you!!

[@G0DALMIGHTY]

Hey so I hope you can help, I followed the instructions up until 2:29 but when I click the DAOU_UpdateAddinsXML_Steam.exe it throws up a notice about needing to activate the game and needing the CD key. There is no DLC option in game settings and the link shows a dead page. Do you know any work arounds?

[@G0DALMIGHTY]

Okay so followed advice in the comments, got the two executables to run and complete, checked the docs/BW/DA/settings file, addins and offers both in there. but now I press Play and it does nothing... ffs...

[@Cov.39]

Great Video really helpful and saved my evening 🙌

[@god4143]

So in the redist folder, none of them are installing wtf do I do, like, when you say drop the daorigins.exe into the file and then just word vomit about the 4GB patch? It doesn’t make sense, I clicked it, then I clicked the DAO one and nothing, did it vice versa, nothing.

[@connormako1987]

same issue here

[@melc1574]

It deleted my save file by doing this, so I am not sure if it worked at all. but thank you for the video and helping all the others anyway - I am glad it worked for some people! I followed your steps exactly, to the letter and did not deviate.

[@shiningdagr]

Thank you so much for the guide. Tried fixing it in the past and turns out the one I found left out the patch part so I was still having issues.

[@The_Gent]

so you got it to work?

[@shiningdagr]

@@The_Gent so far so good

[@benlinton1452]

You’re a hero, a savior even.

[@sentinel9791]

worked for me, love you man

[@The_Gent]

👌🏻 Awesome!

[@greenstardust]

love you, man 😩 thx you so much!

[@ramors4715]

Sadly this didn't fix my problem, game keeps crashing after launching. Seems no fix is out there to help. And no it's not a user error. Great video btw

[@sandshrew8752]

You are my new favorite person

[@The_Gent]

Glad it helped!

[@Munffe97]

Thank you bro, Im starting my first character in this game, I really like the feeling of old mmorpg that it has

[@The_Gent]

enjoy! goto nexus mods and search for this mod for Dragon Age Origins...its called: Dragon Age Origins Unofficial Remaster . It makes the textures so much more crisp and clean.

[@goofygamers61]

OMG THANK YOU i spent 2 days trying to do this 😢 big life saver. Im restarting completely and playing for the first time on pc. I was so confused on why it wouldnt work... anyways, i appreciate you for this! Also, do you only make videos on youtube or do you stream too? Its nice to meet people who like dragon age

[@Taarkar]

Thanks worked, i couldnt start "DAOU_UpdateAddinsXML_Steam" file (it was asking CD key) , so i clicked play Dragon age from Steam and its showed "Completed, Press close to start Dragon Origin" etc.. and then clicked file "DAUServiceSetup_Steam", soo in the end everything worked, thanks mate

[@ryansparks8634]

Could you elaborate on this? Currently stuck at this portion and cannot get past this part. Nothing I do get either of these to work. -Edit- I got this to work mins after posting this. Relaunch the programs with the dragon age O screen(First mini screen, not the in game one) up and both will run properly.

[@Taarkar]

@@ryansparks8634 yey

[@HitmanZeroX0087]

Did everything up until double-clicking the UpdateAddIns in redist, and it just goes up halfway and stops... Any idea on that?

[@ldik]

sadly my problem is my graphic card isnt reconize even if i did all the step from another tutorial , to prioritize my nvidia card. Feel like i'll never find a way :')

[@grimm7255]

i don't know why but when i try to replace the file, it says i can't. i followed another tutoriel but the only thing it did is delete my dlc's and not fix my problems. so yeah, i think i'm going to pass playing origins, enjoy the game for me

[@Validus241]

I appreciate the detailed and simple instructions. However, I still can't get the game to launch in full screen mode. I keep getting the "Failed to detect a supported video card" error message. In fact, the DA Configure tool won't properly display the display adapters. If anyone has other troubleshooting suggestions, I'd appreciate it.

[@The_Gent]

@Validus241 because your prob playing on a laptop

[@Allison-fs6bq]

Thank you so much!

[@CL-JEF]

youre a legend brother

[@TaidaDave]

I can't even start the game i upgraded to rtx 4080 and 7950x3d, my only option is emulator i guess

[@Sarialiana]

I love you, thank you for the video!

[@H64bit]

Thank you, it worked… but it only works when i run it from the binship icon… if i run it from steam it doesnt work… :3

[@Mrkingwolfen1]

didnt work for me, still does the same old same old when loading it up. crashes the moment i hit play game

[@The_Gent]

@@Mrkingwolfen1 read the comments below.

[@laramorenoeliezerabsalon293]

It worked for me, I can play normal... But what I didn't like is that the game becomes Steam independent, as if I wasn't playing the game through Steam, it doesn't count the game time and it seems that I have the game closed.

[@The_Gent]

thats the trade off.

[@laramorenoeliezerabsalon293]

@@The_Gent It doesn't let me log in with my account either, can I import my game for dragon age 2? or dragon age inquisiton? if possible, how?

[@Motavia0]

Thank you so much!

[@Jubnar]

Doing step 6 doesnt work :( cant load past

[@hubertignatowicz7879]

BRO Thanks so much! I already istalled it 4 fucking times with experiment on my own hand.

[@Giorgio279]

Unfortunately it didn't work for me, it crashes when i launch it from Steam, it sasy that the executable file is missing from the steam folder but it is there.

[@TheLaughingOgre]

Boss. Thanks for sharing!

[@kiwix.channel]

Still can't use the steam launcher for some reason , but at the end it work it out by executing daorigins in the bin_ship. Thx btw

[@happygodaisyy]

Holy shit dude I wanna buy you a drink ty!

[@The_Gent]

it worked?!!! thats awsome news! a couple idiots in these comments said it didnt work, I know they just did something wrong and didnt watch the whole video and do everything step by step. because it should work and if it doesnt, youre doing something wrong lol

[@happygodaisyy]

@@The_Gent nope it worked and works well!

[@Kali-zw1cq]

Hi, great video! I'm trying to get it to work but when I do the redist stuff nothing loads. I'm not super tech savvy so I'm not sure where I could've gone wrong, but the video itself was easy to follow and I hope I can fix what I messed up.

[@Kali-zw1cq]

Ok it works! I just had some of the settings wrong. Thank you for the guide!

[@linguaparamour273]

I've done everything fine up to the point where you went into the redist file and clicked the addins. When I click those, it just gets stuck loading them. Any idea what's going on there?

[@The_Gent]

Try uninstalling everything. Use the file explorer and search for Dragone Age. Delete everything Drsgone Age from your computer. Restart your computer. Load steam, Redownload Dragone Age. Verify integrity of the file in Steam settings. Then try again. If that don't work, idk what to tell ya. Are you doing everything I said specifically in order as I did and wrote in the description?

[@euminforja2335]

thx man, help a lot

[@The_Gent]

Excellent

[@stevefleetwood7840]

got it to work using EA installer...then repairing all files....see if that works for you guys!

[@sampsalol]

Thank you so much man!

[@alexius_sf]

It's not working! When you start the game, the launcher is loaded in the steam and crashes. The game does not start.

[@The_Gent]

did you follow the instructions in the description step by step and do everything i said ? I also like to note this is probably not going to work if you are on Windows 11. Windows 11 is completely broken and does not work with most older games. Thats why its so frowned uppon and everyone stays away from it

[@alexius_sf]

@@The_Gent Windows 11 :(

[@QuestQuenchers]

Does the DAUServiceSetup_Steam take a while? it looks like it's frozen. same with the other one.

[@stickaround]

I got the same thing; it froze on me. You have to open the game to where it gives you the pre-game launcher, then exit. After that, re-try installing those redist files.

[@Fusionpro101]

Thanks mate !

[@The_Gent]

Glad it helped! Lol

[@efefefefefe6767]

u mnie nie działa ktoś ma jakieś pomysły

[@panagiotisiliopoulos472]

I dont see offers anywhere

[@ehabgamesnow2154]

It didnt work 😔 😞 i did same thing but this update file doesn't download fully

[@The_Gent]

That's something your doing wrong. Read the comments 99% of the ppl say it works the only ppl not getting it to work is due to user error your not doing something right

[@ehabgamesnow2154]

@The_Gent nope its not..anyway i solved the problem by completely different way...i opened EA app with my steam account then the game was in my EA library..i deleted the steam version and downloaded it from EA app and all working

[@alexmoore3732]

the unencrypted didn't replace the original and wouldn't open at all. and the patch said catastrophic failure. the offers folder isn't there either. now all of the progress I had managed to make last night is lost, and the game is still crashing after character creation. what am I doing wrong? I did everything you said to do in the video

[@alexmoore3732]

not sure what I did, but it seems to be working now. I'll try to update again once I hit Ostagar, since that's where I ran into trouble last time I got it working

[@alexmoore3732]

managed to get to Ostagar

[@seraphinaedan1033]

hi! thank you so much for the video. I'm trying to double click the two things to install the DLC, but it took me to a webpage that doesn't work and the loading bars won't complete. Also, when I went to check to see if they were installed just in case, when I went to the documents-bioware-dragon age folder, it's not there. like at all. It's gone. Did I do something wrong? anyone please help. Edit: I followed everything exactly EDIT 2: okay I just went to steam and hit play and it loaded for a bit but then that same launcher came up that happens on the first thing to double click, and it did the thing where it says complete. Then I went and checked for the folder again, and it's there and it says addons and the other thing that it's supposed to for the DLC so fingers crossed it works!!! Thank you!!!!

[@notebookcasa-o6d]

how do i uninstall the game? The uninstall button isn't working in my game, i cant press it.

[@f6jk]

how do you have diablo 2 and 3 on steam?

[@napstablook3935]

i cant replace the file on bin_ship bc it keeps saying i dont have permission, i followed every tutorial under the sun to try and allow me permission but nothing works!

[@The_Gent]

Are you Administrator?

[@ricardomerced12]

Thank you man what a god send is it the same process for DA:2 Ultimate Edition

[@The_Gent]

Oh idk..is that one broken too? I haven't tried playing that in a couple months. It was working fine a couple months ago when I played it

[@dustincarter7309]

so i did the steps perfectly but when i try to load the game it crashes when it opens the origins configuration unity

[@The_Gent]

You're not supposed to launch the game through that. Launch through Steam!

[@jinpaking7464]

That doesn´t fix my problem

[@arisutaku6137]

I wish I could see this video earlier and simply follow your steps instead of searching how the hell I activate DLC in 2023 when services are off now and the DLC itself is free from 2022

[@The_Gent]

well it does activate the DLC its part of the Ultimate Edition if you dont have the Ultimate Edition idk what to tell ya. But if you do everything i say to do as I say to do it (READ THE DESCRIPTION FOR STEPS AS WELL) it will work I just did it again for the 3rd time and did it for my friend as well.

[@davidborja8054]

For some reason the nexus and the ntcore files did not work for me

[@davidborja8054]

Please help

[@The_Gent]

@@davidborja8054 everything works, you are just doing something wrong. Follow the steps step by step in the description. Read the comments, see how 99% of the comments say thank you? Thats because you are a.) doing something wrong or b.) your not using the Steam version or Ultimate Version. If my method doesnt help you then Idk what to tell you. It works for me and everyone else I know.

[@davidborja8054]

I got it to work but when I put it oh the highest settings it crashes so I keep it at medium settings

[@Yxtxxyxx]

Hello, so on step 6, when double clicking, the status bar stays stuck. Should I uninstall and try again?

[@Yxtxxyxx]

Whoops, nvm. Just saw another comment that fixes this problem, thank you!

[@The_Gent]

@@Yxtxxyxx yea, theres a ton of different responces and little bit of feedback peopel have said what they used ontop of my method to get it working. I cant belive we even ahve to go through with this crap still. I have my original Rainbow Six & MEch Commander discs from 1996 and when i goto install them thorugh the CDROM drive, it wont even install them anymore says some ERROR and the game is in perfect condtion.

[@evancrow2191]

Your not showing how to get this on the desk top Its not letting my drag anything

[@The_Gent]

youre retarded. go play on console. pc too advanced for you.

[@jonwelly]

Does this still work if I bought it on the EA app? My games just been crashing regularly on my (relatively) high end computer, thanks!

[@The_Gent]

It should

[@shadowed_ms6656]

where to find CD key?

[@Irrelevant402]

Alright found the dang Alex Faithman mod. Stupid thing wouldn't show up if I searched that.

[@The_Gent]

I think u got the wrong video

[@Irrelevant402]

@@The_Gent Huh? But that's the name attached to the Dragon Age Origins 4gb file. I saw someone else post 'the link doesn't work' and you replied 'hey r-word just look at the video' So I did and wow I found it and didn't need to be called an r-word.

[@alexhuerta6164]

It said something about the CD key and that I could get it from Steam by right clicking the game, 'Manage', and then 'CD KEYS' but I do not have that option in Manage?

[@The_Gent]

are you launching from steam or EA ?

[@The_Gent]

All I can tell you is to follow the instructions in the Description step by step. I dont know nothing about no CD Key...you might have to contact Steam Support regarding that, just take a screenshot of what its saying and attach it to the ticket. Its a very simple process..

[@alexhuerta6164]

@@The_Gent I believe I figured it out! I mean if I wanna play online I'm fucked but I can play offline just fine 😂

[@umbecunsu8546]

Do you actually need to unistall the game or can I just install the fix with the game already installed?

[@The_Gent]

everythign needs to go. i said start fresh .

[@MacClariggs]

Thank you.

[@The_Gent]

this got it to work for you?

[@MacClariggs]

​@@The_Gent Yes, for me, seems it fixed everything. Before, all settings defaulted on every restart, constant crashes and no DLC. Just finished Leliana's DLC with zero hitches, no further steps required, just smooth sailing all the way. Playing on a hand-me-down hp probook 640 g2, thanks granma.

[@J1Warrior84]

I just bought the game on steam. There was a huge bundle with all dragon age games. So do I need to download the game then delete that one folder and everything i side after I Uninstall game. Then re download it? Or just start after that step. I only ask because I know these steps usually have to be followed to the T or it doesn't work. Thanks for this vid and the help!!

[@The_Gent]

Well if you haven't played the game before then you don't need to delete the files because they never were on your computer to begin with.

[@J1Warrior84]

@The Gent ok cool that's what I figured. But didn't know if for some weird reason you needed the other files. Haha yeah I know I'm retarded lol Thanks for the response. I also thought this was to get it running on my steam deck video and realized after trying all this that it was a video for steam. Haha But I got it running but controls suck ass for the deck. It's one of my all time favorite rpgs of the past. I'll have to get a keyboard and mouse for my deck. Thank you so much for the video and responding. Have a great day!!!

[@petrgalko4152]

C:\Users\(username)\Documents\Bioware\Dragon Age\Settings - Im missing that settings file. What to do now?

[@The_Gent]

Follow the steps. If you haven't installed the game before then you don't need to delete anything🤷🏻‍♂️...but like I said you NEED TO DELETE THE DRAGON AGE FOLDER and start over from scratch. This is fora fresh install of DRAGON AGE ULTIMATE on Steam..it's not hard. It's 3 steps. Read Description...if it's not working for you then your doing something wrong. If you follow the steps EXACTLY how I have them in the Description, it'll work.

[@Iceriel]

Very silly question, at this point: I luckily did not encounter your problem, but I see that on your list and mine as well, "return to ostagar" does not feature in the other campaign. Is it normal? I'd hate to start the game and fins myself without that DLC ....

[@The_Gent]

This is for fresh install and the DLCs will be loaded in whe.n you do the one step. But you have to do them in the order I showed and this is for a clean install. Deleting all saves and everything

[@The_Gent]

It should be in there maybe you missed it cause I scroll through them pretty fast

[@mykolazamikula3506]

It seems that it is ok. "Return" is literally not the "other campaing", but part of the base game. You couldn`t play it outside of the main campaign. So it shouldn`t be featured there. Same with Warden`s Keep and Stone Prisoner.

[@Iceriel]

@@The_Gent thanks! I panicked a bit because return to ostagar has been a tricky DLC even on console, that's why I was concerned 🤣 but thanks again for this guide. Life saver.

[@witchylee3425]

So is it normal for the DAOU_UpdatrAddinsXML_Steam, to take so long? Cause it froze for me

[@The_Gent]

Did you watch the whole video like I said and read the description? Try looking that up on Google just copy and paste that into Google search you'll prob find the answer.

[@witchylee3425]

@@The_Gent alright thank you

[@quanghuypham4225]

I bought the game yesterday and I spent 14h so I got some issue it's crashing when I changed the tab to the window, I watch some streamer play before their graphic is good and look beauty is it mod if I install mod now I will lose my save game? thanks for the video

[@The_Gent]

this isnt for that. you have a bug/corrupted save file i think. if you restart you will have to purge your pc, including save files, because they are now corrupted. just follow the steps in the description if you don't understand the video if you decide to go that route. This will fix everything, my method, but you will have to start over.

[@davidanderson2018]

Yeah know of this worked. None of my files are in any other correct locations

[@The_Gent]

@@davidanderson2018 prob didn't follow the instructions

[@ynsan3]

do you recognize me asks the girl who was seen for a short while as a baby. 😂 cute scene though still.

[@DonaldD02]

I might try this out and see what I can do. My specs on my computer blow the recommended away, but for some reason my 'create new character' screen is black, I see 2 dots as eyes. I have to lower the graphics on my I9 Intel, 3090 TI card, just to see myself or guess what my character looks like, but then in game increase graphics back. Random crashes too, some of those mods have issues seems like. Does anyone know of a 'crash log' generator? If I could see what the issue is, I could fix it.

[@The_Gent]

Mods? What mods are you talking about? There are no mods.

[@DonaldD02]

@@The_Gent I meant my own mods, not anything you showed. I was just saying I wish I could find a Crash Log to find out which one was doing it. I understand no mods in this video, but it may help make it more stable.

[@The_Gent]

@@DonaldD02 that's because you have. Multiple texture mods overlapping each other that's why it does that

[@DonaldD02]

@@The_Gent I actually tried to run it without mods and without your guide at first, then was black with 2 dots, following your info, I can see my character... This time though one mod made my Elf Commoners stomach see through... Wish I knew more about it.

[@twistedstorm2986]

I think I'm having a difficult time- I did everything except double-clicking on two things in redist. Once I click on either of them, they're stuck frozen on the loading screen (and yes I'm doing this at 3 am because it takes an hour to reinstall the game-) should I be concerned that the game's file didn't appear in the Bioware file?

[@The_Gent]

i dont know what your talking about. did you follow the instructions exactly how i have them written out in the description? you have to delete everything Dragon Age Origins from your computer, uninstall and start fresh before you do anything.

[@twistedstorm2986]

@@The_Gent I did, I redid everything but the only problem is double clicking DAOU_UpdateAddinsXML_Steam and DAUServiceSetup_Steam, once they load up, their progress bar doesn't finish all the way through, it's stuck like that, and act like they're done with their progress. Aside from that, do you have a video covering the CD Key? It says it wants me to activate it but the Bioware site for that link doesn't exist and I have no idea where to get the CD Key so I can activate it manually

[@stephanyrios2451]

@@twistedstorm2986 I had that same problem. All I did was cancel the load, opened dragon age origins game through steam, left the game and tried to download them again and it worked. I really have no clue why it worked lol

[@The_Gent]

​​@@twistedstorm2986 there is no key that's been fixed with the patch. Go through the comments on here and read the replies to what theey said they did to get it fixed. There's a couple ppl that had small issues that ended up fixing it and they all got it working. So yea, go look through them and see if they have the answer.

[@The_Gent]

​​​​​@@twistedstorm2986 I would also recommend before installing the game, you're gonna want to first uninstall the game via steam (I would recommend using iObitUninstaller because that removes registry stuff and other junk files that the uninstaller misses). After thats done, goto your File Browser and search Dragon Age Origins Ultimate and delete everything that has anything to do with DAO (besides other dragon age games) that pops up. Because everything related to DAO has been corrupted. Screenshots, u can move them all to a new folder on the desktop for now. Do all that before you install the game. But the only thing I cam tell u is follow the instructions in the Description while you watch this video. 2nd, if your having problems. Go through the comments on this video and read the ppl who are having problems, their were a few that had minor issues (like you), and figured out what to do. Reach out to them and see what they say. If you figure it out get back to me if you don't still let back to me I'm anxious to know what you did to fix it. If you do fix it please make a new post describing the problem and what you had to do to fix so others can use it for a reference. Good luck!.

[@highjim7778]

url in description form nexus mods isnt complete

[@The_Gent]

Just get everything downloaded it's like 2 or 3 small files literally takes less than 5 minute's . Watch the video and search it it's still available

[@The_Gent]

i fixed it just put a . where it says dot

[@biswarupbandyopadhyay3266]

your nexus mods link is not complete link...please repost both the links

[@The_Gent]

Dude did u even watch the video? It shows you lmao just go there and look it up but the link works I just checked it your retarded